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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays Paperback - 2000

by Berlin, Isaiah

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"The Proper Study of Mankind" brings together Berlin's most celebrated writing. Here readers will find his penetrating portraits of contemporaries; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his studies of intellectual originals.

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  • Title The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
  • Author Berlin, Isaiah
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 704
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Date 2000-08-02
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B15A-02562
  • ISBN 9780374527174 / 0374527172
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 2.1 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 5.33 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophical anthropology, Political science - Philosophy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 192

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THERE ARE, in my view, two factors that, above all others, have shaped human history in the twentieth century.

About the author

Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was born in Riga, Latvia, and immigrated to England in 1921. At Oxford, he was a Fellow of New College and of All Souls, and founding president of Wolfson College.